- Date
- May 19, 1990, 16:09 local (20:09 UTC)
- Place
- Readington, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2502TNavion H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900519019959A
- Case key
- 36653
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain minimum flying airspeed which led to an inadvertent stall/mush. Factors related to the accident were the pilot's decision to land with a tailwind, and his failure to monitor his airspeed on final.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot turned final in strong tail wind conditions and with gear and flaps extended. The airplane landed 1/4 mile short of the runway. The pilot said he lost power, however the FAA reported the pilot allowed the airplane to get too slow and develop a sink rate from which recovery was not possible. When the airplane hit the ground it slid 20 feet.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2502T
- Reported as
- Navion H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2502
- Airframe hours
- 1,700
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John T. Blumberg, M.D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- New Kenton, VA
- Airport
- SBJ · Solberg Hunterdon, runway 31, 3,425 × 200 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 69
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 2,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.